Robert Bradley

Robert Bradleyis the founder and CEO of Institute for Energy Research, and served previously as Director of Public Policy Analysis at Enron, where he wrote speeches for Kenneth Lay. Bradley is also a contributor to a "free market" energy group blog, MasterResource.

Bradley is a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009), organized by the Heartland Institute think tank.

Bradley's training is in economics and political economy. He's an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute, and has authored several books, including: "The Mirage of Oil Protection" (1989), "Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience" (2 volumes: 1996), "Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability" (2000), "Climate Alarmism Reconsidered" (2003), and, with Richard Fulmer, "Energy: the Master Resource" (2004).

Industry Ties
IER is a Houston, Texas-based free-market think tank. They have received over $200,000 in funding from oil-giant ExxonMobil and have strong links to other well-known industry-friendly organizations. Bradley is also listed as an "Adjunct Scholar" for the DC-based free-market think tank the Cato Institute, which describes itself as an organization seeking to, "broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace." The Cato Institute has received funding in the past from ExxonMobil, as well as well known energy industry-money backed charitable foundations like the Charles G Koch Foundation. Finally, Bradley is listed as an "Expert" for another free-market think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). CEI describes itself as a "public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government." The organzation is well-known for its aggressive efforts to counter the scientific evidence for human-induced climate change, including an infamous set of television ads with the tag line "C02, We Call it Life." Since 1998, CEI has received over $2 million in funding from ExxonMobil, although in 2007, ExxonMobil announced they would no longer be funding CEI.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global warming skeptics
 * Heartland Institute
 * International Conference on Climate Change (2009)
 * SourceWatch:Project:Creating Articles on Sponsors and Speakers at The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

External articles

 * Rob Bradley, "The Malthusian Virus in the Scientific Debate", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 10, 2009. (PowerPoint)